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Contents:

• GAY UPLE RECEIVE LANDMARK CHURCH WAL BLSG
• GAY CLERGY URGE GREATER CLN CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'MT ACCEPT ACTIVELY GAY CLERGY'
• SURVEY SET TO REVEAL NUMBER OF GAY CLERGY CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAY TURN BLD EYE TO GAY CLERGY SEX
• ROW OVER RELEASE OF GAY CLERGY LIST
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND PROPOS CELEBRATG GAY MARRIAGE
• THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’
• WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?
• WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?
• WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?

GAY UPLE RECEIVE LANDMARK CHURCH WAL BLSG

However stopped short of allowg gay upl to marry s move has put the Church Wal at odds wh s sister Anglin church, the Church of England, which forbids clergy om blsg gay Lee said the service, at St Collen's Church, Llangollen, Denbighshire, was "extremely special".

GAY CLERGY URGE GREATER CLN CHURCH OF ENGLAND

It marks a signifint shift om the historil church teachg that homosexual relatnships are sful.

"Image source, Andrei Daniel ProductnImage ptn, Father Taylor is prit--charge at St Collen's Church, LlangollenThe Bishop of St Asaph, the Right Revered Gregory Cameron, led the service at St Collen's Church, Llangollen, where Father Taylor is said was "a great honour and privilege" to lead the first blsg for a gay uple that the Church was aware have a "nscience clse" which means they n opt out of offerg the blsg if they disagree. Fourteen Church of England clergy same-sex marriag have lled on bishops to do more to clu gay people the life of the a letter to the Sunday Tim, they said they wanted to eventually see gay upl allowed to marry Church.

Some of the clergy signg the letter were revealg they were gay and married for the first time letter after Bishop Nicholas Chamberla said on Friday he was gay and a relatnship. Publitn the n-up to a College of Bishops meetg om 12 to 15 September which will discs issu of epispal mistry and clergy said bishops should be bold, and allow gay people to "celebrate whout fear and openns", though they said that now is not yet the time to change the church's official unrstandg of letter reads: "But many our parish have already ma that move and is time to rpect that a diversy of theology wh the Church now exists and that there is more than one unrstandg of what a fahful Christian may believe on the issu.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'MT ACCEPT ACTIVELY GAY CLERGY'

"Image source, Dce of LlnImage ptn, The Bishop of Grantham beme a sufagan the Lln dce November last yearBishop Chamberla revealed he was gay an terview wh the Guardian, which he said he unrstood and lived by the Church guil, which say gay clergy mt rema celibate.

SURVEY SET TO REVEAL NUMBER OF GAY CLERGY CHURCH OF ENGLAND

Followg the news, the nservative Anglin group Gafn said appotg a gay man as the bishop of Grantham had been a "major error" Chamberla was nsecrated last year by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jt Welby - who has said he knew about the bishop's sex relatnships and the ChurchThe Hoe of Bishops has issued guidance about gay relatnships which say "same sex relatnships often embody genue mutualy and fily" the guidance adds: "Gettg married to someone of the same sex would, however, clearly be at variance wh the teachg of the Church of England.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAY TURN BLD EYE TO GAY CLERGY SEX

"However, the sentiments have not been followed throughout the Anglin source, PAImage ptn, Gene Robson is nsired the first openly gay bishop the Anglin worldIn the US, Gene Robson's electn as Bishop of the Epispal Dce of New Hampshire 2003 provoked a furore om nservative Anglins around the world, and ntributed to the rise of the nservative Gafn the UK, the Dean of St Albans, the Very Reverend Jefey John entered to a civil partnership was twice tipped to bee a bishop - at Readg 2003, then at Southwark 2010 - but was not appoted.

ROW OVER RELEASE OF GAY CLERGY LIST

Currently bans gay weddgs church, allows prayers of support to same sex upl followg a civil partnership or marriage and allows clergy to enter a civil partnership.

In a 2017 terview, when asked for his views on “gay sex”, the Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby, said: “I am havg to stggle to be fahful to the tradn, fahful to the scripture, to unrstand what the ll and will of God is the 21st century and to rpond appropriately wh an answer for all people … that vers both sis of the argument. The 1998 Lambeth Conference (a gatherg of bishops om the worldwi provc of the Anglin Communn) passed a rolutn characterisg “homosexual practice as patible wh Scripture”.

This rolutn is not bdg on any of the Anglin church worldwi, and some of them have gone on to orda gay clergy and/or to celebrate same-sex marriag. What is the suatn wh gay clergy?

CHURCH OF ENGLAND PROPOS CELEBRATG GAY MARRIAGE

In 2017, Revd Andrew Forhew-Ca, a vir London who married his hband 2015, rigned om his post cg the prsure of workg for an “stutnally homophobic anisatn”.

THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’

This did not change the Church of England’s teachg on marriage, but did ll for opposn to homophobia. A leadg historian has lled for the Church of England to accept gay partnerships among s clergy, stead of enuragg them to hi their sexualy or rema celibate.

WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?

Diarmaid MacCulloch, profsor of the history of the church at the Universy of Oxford and prenter of BBC4's A History of Christiany, wr the Guardian that while there has been a revolutn attus towards gay people the UK, "the church has jt stuck s fgers s ears and chanted la-la-la". "His ments e nearly a week after was revealed that Jefey John, the most senr openly gay cleric the church, was nsirg sug his employers for discrimatn.

WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?

MacCulloch argu that "the Anglin munn has … imposed pulsory celibacy on a large sectn of s clergy: those who regnise they are predomantly gay sexual orientatn". He also cricis the selectn procs for new prits, which he says is obssed wh the sexualy of ndidat and "vot an ordate amount of time to quizzg them about " the moment the church's posn is that there is no bar to gay people assumg cleril office, even if they are civil partnerships, wh the ccial proviso that they mt not be sexually active. "Reverend Rod Thomas, chair of the nservative group Reform, said the appotment of a gay bishop England would lead to divisn the church as had done the US.

"Explag the church's abily to e to terms wh the issue of gay clergy, MacCulloch poted to a crisis of masculy.

"It's tertg that female homosexualy don't tert the clergy so much. It's male homosexualy and that's bee 's still a very male-domated stutn. A natnal survey of the number of homosexual clergy the Church of England will take place this year, acrdg to gay rights mpaigners.

WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?

Inclive Church, a work of dividuals and anisatns workg for better regnn of mori, says the survey will be the first of s kd and will prove that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred (LGBT) clergy play a ccial role the everyday life of the onle survey will ask participants whether they are sgle, a relatnship, and have had a blsg or thanksgivg service to celebrate their partnership. "The survey would start late November and take about six months to plete; would be nducted by a firm specialisg populatn month the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, reerated his opposn to ordag gay clergy and thorisg same-sex blsgs, sayg they were "at the very least analogo" to Christian marriage and people livg such unns uld not "whout ser ngy" have a reprentative functn a church whose public teachg was "at odds wh their liftyle".